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Paddock Practices
Paddock practices: Updated guide helps reduce risk of pre-emergent…
12.02.2024Pre-emergent residual herbicides are an important weed management tool in Australian cropping systems, as they can be used to control weeds that compete vigorously with growing crops for water and nutrients.
Region: West
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Paddock Practices
Paddock Practices: Variety selection key to controlling SFNB in…
30.11.2023Selecting the right variety can significantly reduce the impact of spot form net blotch (SFNB) and optimise economic returns in the barley intensive cropping systems prevalent in Western Australia’s low-rainfall zone (LRZ).
Region: West
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Paddock Practices: Everything you wish you knew about farm safety…
26.04.2023Agriculture is a high-risk working environment. It has a unique combination of workplace hazards, which include plant (such as tractors, motorbikes and quad bikes), chemicals (such as pesticides, herbicides and fertilisers), noise, dust, working
Region: West
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Paddock Practices: Variety selections for fungal disease management …
06.12.2022A high incidence of fungal disease in Western Australia’s Albany and Esperance Port Zones during the 2022 season has led to increased concerns about fungicide resistance, with attention now turning to which crops and varieties will offer better
Region: West
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Paddock Practices: Managing diamondback moth
06.09.2022Diamondback moth numbers have been found above economic threshold – damaging canola in some eastern and northern grainbelt areas of Western Australia
Region: West
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Paddock Practices: WA growers urged to monitor amid reports of…
06.07.2022Growers across the WA grain belt are encouraged to actively and frequently monitor for mouse activity, with the recent detection of significant mouse damage to crops in Merredin and surrounds.
Region: West
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Paddock Practices: How does the price of phosphorus fertiliser…
01.12.2021With global phosphorus (P) supply chain issues continuing and prices for fertiliser expected to stay high in 2022, decisions around P fertiliser application rate will have greater influence on the budgets of grain-producing businesses than usual
Region: West
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Paddock Practices
Paddock Practices: Tips to manage net blotch in barley crops
24.07.2021Growers and agronomists are advised to monitor barley crops this winter for signs of spot and net form of net blotch (SFNB and NFNB).
Region: West
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Paddock Practices: Managing insecticide resistance in diamondback…
09.06.2021DBM can rapidly evolve resistance to insecticides and reduced sensitivity to a range of chemistries is widespread in Australia.
Region: West
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Paddock Practices: Vigilant early weed management encouraged
19.03.2021With widespread, although variable rainfall across the Western Australian grainbelt this summer and into March, growers keen to preserve useful summer rainfall will need to act quickly on weed management in autumn.
Region: West